Law and Society in Imperial Japan
: Suehiro Izutarō and the Search for Equity
著 者：Jason Morgan 出版社：Cambria Press 発売日：January 8, 2020 定 価：＄109.99
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Japan emerged from the Edo Period (1600-1868) with a legal system which, in many ways, tended to privilege situational judgment over strict adherence to universally-applicable legal codes. Under pressure from without and within to "modernize," Japan adopted many Western laws and jurisprudential practices which were largely alien to Japanese society. At the same time, Japan took on Western modes of political participation which tended to exacerbate more than solve the social ills attendant on industrialization and modernity. Suehiro Izutarō, a legal scholar at the University of Tokyo, and a group of likeminded professors and activists attempted to ameliorate Japanese social problems through a case law method, making the courts more responsive to the poor through the application of a native form of Japanese equity from the Edo Period. However, as Japan's regional reach expanded and the world situation darkened, the prerogatives of empire cut short Suehiro's social experiments and eventually co-opted even Suehiro himself in imperial logic.
Japanese law is often approach comparatively, but in this study the inner workings of law in Japan--jurisprudentially as well as philosophically and politically--are given priority. By foregrounding case studies and other primary sources in Japanese, Equity under Empire shows how Japan, and the Japanese legal-political system, changed from the inside. Following the career of one of the twentieth century's most prominent legal minds, Equity under Empire maps the intellectual and historical twists and turns that set Japan on a course far removed from Edo equity, grappling with the internal contradictions of imperialism as she moved beyond the archipelago in a struggle with Anglo-European powers in Asia and the Pacific. This is a from-the-inside look at the life of the law in Japan from the closing years of Edo through the first half of the twentieth century.
Equity under Empire is an important book for collections on East Asian history and law, and on law and legal philosophy in general.
･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ジェイソン・モーガン（Jason Morgan） JFSS研究員。麗澤大学外国語学部助教。歴史学者。日本史研究者。 1977年、アメリカ合衆国ルイジアナ州生れ。テネシー大学チャタヌーガ校で歴史学を専攻後、名古屋外国語大学、名古屋大学大学院、中国昆明市の雲南大学に留学。その後、ハワイ大学の大学院で、東アジア学、特に中国史を専門に研究。卒業後は、韓国の慶尚北道英陽郡で英語教師として滞在。再び日本に戻り、翻訳に従事。2014～2015年、フルブライト研究者として早稲田大学法務研究科で研究、2016年、ウィスコンシン大学で博士号を取得。現在、JFSS研究員、麗澤大学外国語学部助教。 著書に『アメリカはなぜ日本を見下すのか？』『リベラルに支配されたアメリカの末路』（ワニブックス）、『日本国憲法は日本人の恥である』（悟空出版）、共著に『英語対訳で学ぶ日本』（育鵬社）がある。
Japan emerged from the Edo Period (1600-1868) with a legal system which, in many ways, tended to privilege situational judgment over strict adherence to universally-applicable legal codes. Under pressure from without and within to "modernize," Japan adopted many Western laws and jurisprudential practices which were largely alien to Japanese society. At the same time, Japan took on Western modes of political participation which tended to exacerbate more than solve the social ills attendant on industrialization and modernity. Suehiro Izutarō, a legal scholar at the University of Tokyo, and a group of likeminded professors and activists attempted to ameliorate Japanese social problems through a case law method, making the courts more responsive to the poor through the application of a native form of Japanese equity from the Edo Period. However, as Japan's regional reach expanded and the world situation darkened, the prerogatives of empire cut short Suehiro's social experiments and eventually co-opted even Suehiro himself in imperial logic.
Japanese law is often approach comparatively, but in this study the inner workings of law in Japan--jurisprudentially as well as philosophically and politically--are given priority. By foregrounding case studies and other primary sources in Japanese, Equity under Empire shows how Japan, and the Japanese legal-political system, changed from the inside. Following the career of one of the twentieth century's most prominent legal minds, Equity under Empire maps the intellectual and historical twists and turns that set Japan on a course far removed from Edo equity, grappling with the internal contradictions of imperialism as she moved beyond the archipelago in a struggle with Anglo-European powers in Asia and the Pacific. This is a from-the-inside look at the life of the law in Japan from the closing years of Edo through the first half of the twentieth century.
Equity under Empire is an important book for collections on East Asian history and law, and on law and legal philosophy in general.
･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････
ジェイソン・モーガン（Jason Morgan）
JFSS研究員。麗澤大学外国語学部助教。歴史学者。日本史研究者。
1977年、アメリカ合衆国ルイジアナ州生れ。テネシー大学チャタヌーガ校で歴史学を専攻後、名古屋外国語大学、名古屋大学大学院、中国昆明市の雲南大学に留学。その後、ハワイ大学の大学院で、東アジア学、特に中国史を専門に研究。卒業後は、韓国の慶尚北道英陽郡で英語教師として滞在。再び日本に戻り、翻訳に従事。2014～2015年、フルブライト研究者として早稲田大学法務研究科で研究、2016年、ウィスコンシン大学で博士号を取得。現在、JFSS研究員、麗澤大学外国語学部助教。
著書に『アメリカはなぜ日本を見下すのか？』『リベラルに支配されたアメリカの末路』（ワニブックス）、『日本国憲法は日本人の恥である』（悟空出版）、共著に『英語対訳で学ぶ日本』（育鵬社）がある。
